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I Am Disappointed That After All Of The Struggles That We Have Had In This Country For Such A Long Time, Trying To Get Through And Beyond Racism And Bigotry And Discrimination - I Think It Is Sad. It Just Tells Us The Kind Of Work That We Have To Do As - As America, As A Nation.

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I Am Disappointed That

Bernie Sanders

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I Am Disappointed That After All Of The Struggles That We Have Had In This Country For Such A Long Time, Trying To Get Through And Beyond Racism And Bigotry And Discrimination - I Think It Is Sad. It Just Tells Us The Kind Of Work That We Have To Do As - As America, As A Nation.

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I Have Been In The Democratic Caucus In The Senate For Over 24 Years.

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Let Us Wage A Moral And Political War Against War Itself, So That We Can Cut Military Spending And Use That Money For Human Needs.

What We Need To Do Is Support Small And Medium-sized Businesses, The Backbone Of Our Economy, But We Have To Make Sure That Every Family In This Country Gets A Fair Shake... Not Just For Billionaires.

The Future Of The Democratic Party, The Future Of This Country Is Involving Young People In The Political Process, Getting Them To Stand Up For Their Rights, Dealing With Student Debt, Which I Got To Tell You Is Just Crushing People All Over This Country, Making Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free, Those Are The Ideas We Are Bringing Out, Demanding The Wealthy And Large Corporations Start Paying Their Fair Share Of Taxes. This Is What Younger People, Working Class People Want. That Is The Future Of The Democratic Party.

People Understand That The Economy Is Rigged. They're Working Longer Hours For Low Wages. All New Income And Wealth, Almost All, Is Going To The People On Top.

We Live In A Country Where A Small Number Of People Have Incredible Wealth And Power. America Has More Income And Wealth Inequality Than Any Other Major Country.

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Every Three Weeks Before An Election The Tv Ads Expressing Great Concern About Our Trade Policy And The Loss Of Jobs To China And Other Low-wage Countries. And Then It's Forgotten About The Day After The Election.

Between 2013 And 2015, The Wealthiest 14 People Saw Their Wealth Increase By $157 Billion. This Is Their Wealth Increase, Got It? Not What They Are Worth. Increase. That $157 Billion Is More Wealth Than Is Owned By The Bottom 40 Percent Of The American People. One Family, The Walton Family, Owns More Wealth Than The Bottom 40 Percent.

I Want To Know In This Day And Age, Whether It Is Possible For Any Candidate Who Is Not A Billionaire Or Who Is Not Beholden To The Billionaire Class, To Be Able To Run Successful Campaigns.

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Records Breaking

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The Middle Class Is Collapsing And We Are Moving Toward An Oligarchic Form Of Society, Where The Billionaires Will Control The Economy And The Political Life Of The Country.

Setting Aside Labels, I Am Somebody Who Believes That Government In A Democratic Society Should Be Representing The Needs Of The Vast Majority Of The People Who Are Middle-class And Working Families.

Essentially What My Campaign Is About, It`s About Anything, This Is Saying We`ve Got Bring That Money Back Into The Middle Class And Working Families. We Have To Create Jobs, We Have To Raise, We Have To Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free So Kids In That Community Who Are Studying Hard Understand That Some Day They Will Be Able To Go To College.

The Truth Is That Political Consciousness In This Country Is Pretty Low... To The Degree That We Can Help Educate And Organize People Around The Most Important Issues Facing Their Lives And Show That There Is Support For Fundamental Changes In The Way We Do Business In The United States Of America In Terms Of Income Inequality, In Terms Of Low Wages, In Terms Of Disastrous Trade Policies, In Terms Of Being The Only Major Country Not To Have A National Healthcare Program - That's Success.

If You Look At Our Records, I Stood Up To Corporate America Time And Time Again. I Went To Mexico. I Saw The Lives Of People Who Were Working In American Factories And Making $0.25 An Hour.

I Want To Applaud Those Workers Rallying To Raise The Minimum Wage To $15 Per Hour. I Believe Strongly That A Great Nation Will Not Survive When So Few Have So Much And So Many Have So Little. Every Worker In America Should Be Given Respect, Dignity And The Wages And Benefits They Need To Take Care Of Their Family.

The Middle Class In America Is At A Tipping Point. It Will Not Last Another Generation If We Don't Boldly Change Course Now.

Fifty Years Ago, Great Schools Like The University Of California And The City University Of New York - As Well As Many State Colleges - Were Tuition Free. Today College Is Unaffordable For Many Working Class Families. For The Sake Of Our Economy And Millions Of Americans, We Must Make Higher Education More Affordable.

Any Idiot, Especially One Who Is Prepared To Die, Who Has A Gun, Can Start Shooting Up People.

What Some Of Us Believe Is That It Is Possible That If Chemicals Are Related To Gulf War Illness That Some Of The More Severe Symptoms May Not Erupt Until 10 Or 20 Years Down The Line.

The Decision Is I'm Going To Do Everything I Can To Fight For The Working Class Of This Country, The Low-income People Against Income And Wealth Inequality, Do Everything We Can About Climate Change.

Instead Of Cutting Social Security, We're Going To Expand Social Security Benefits.

The Goal Of Real Healthcare Reform Must Be High-quality, Universal Coverage In A Cost-effective Way.

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We Are The Only Major Country On Earth That Doesn't Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right And Yet We End Up Spending Much More Than They Do, So I Do Believe That We Have To Move Toward A Medicare For All, Single-payer System.

Things Are Getting Worse. You Know, When You Look At This Campaign, And You Realize The Enormously Serious Issues This Country Faces, Right, We Got A Collapsing Middle Class. We Have More Wealth And Income Inequality Today Than We've Had Since The 1920s. We Have All Of These Enormous Issues.

I Have Taken On Virtually Every Element Of The Big Money Establishment, Whether It's The Koch Brothers, And The Big Energy Companies, Whether It's The Industrial Complex, Whether It's Wall Street... I Have Taken On The Drug Companies. I Have Taken On The Insurance Companies.

I Will Tell You Is The Antidote To [donald] Trump Is A Very Strong Progressive Agenda That Says, Yes, I Know You`re Angry. And You Know What? You Should Be Angry Because You`re Working Longer Hours For Low Wages. You Have A Right To Be Bitter And You Have A Right To Be That.

For Some Reason, We Can't Go To Cuba, Businesses In American Can't Do Business In Cuba. I Think That That Is Stupid. So I Hope Very Much And Applaud The President For His Efforts In That Direction And Hope That In The Not-too-distant Future, That If I Have Anything To Say About It As President, We Will Work Aggressively To Develop Normal Relations In Every Respect With The People Of Cuba.

When I Talked About Boeing And I Talked About General Electric, What I Was Referring To Is An Outrage... Right Now You Have A Loophole Such That These Guys Are Putting Their Profits, Multi-billion Dollar Profitable Corporations Putting Billions Of Dollars Into The Cayman Islands, Bermuda, And Other Tax Havens.

All Over This Country You Have Progressive Communities Like Madison And Burlington, But We've Got To Go Well, Well, Well Outside Of Those Communities. We've Got To Go To The Rural Areas. We've Got To Go Where A Lot Of Working People Are Voting Republican.

I Don't Run Against Hillary Clinton. I Run On The Most Important Issues Facing America.

I Think My Main Concern Is Because I Worry About Demagoguery. It`s Real. You See The People Standing Up There And Applauding.

The Truth Is We Have A Political System And An Economic System Controlled By A Few Extremely Wealthy People. Not Barack Obama, Not Bernie Sanders, No One Person Has The Influence By Himself Or Herself To Take On This Enormous Array Of Power Unless Millions Of People Begin To Work Together To Demand Changes.

This Is A War For The Soul Of Islam. And Those Countries Who Are Opposed To Islam, They Are Going To Have To Get Deeply Involved In A Way That Is Not The Case Today. We Should Be Supportive Of That Effort.

Income And Wealth Inequality Have Reached Obscene Levels, The Threat Of Climate Change Is More Frightening Than Ever, And The Billionaire Class Is Now Allowed To Spend Unlimited Amounts Of Money To Buy The Candidate They Want. And It Is Up To Us To Stand Up And Fight Back. If We Stand Together, There Is No Limit To What We Can Accomplish.

Democracy Is One Person, One Vote And A Full Discussion Of The Issues That Affect Us. Oligarchy Is Billionaires Buying Elections, Voter Suppression And A Concentrated Corporate Media Determining What We See, Hear And Read.

The Federal Reserve Needs To Provide Small Businesses In America With The Same Low-interest Loans It Gave To Foreign Banks.

Not Just For The U.s. Senate But It Also Means For School Board And City Council. We Need To Revitalize American Democracy. We Need To Have People At All - All Over This Country, Having The Courage To Take On Big Money And Demand A Set Of Policies That Work For All Of Us And Not Just For The Few.

For Democrats To Win, They're Going To Have To Address The Needs Of Working People. They're Going To Have To Address The Needs Of The Middle Class. And That Means Standing Up To Wall Street, Standing Up To The Greed Of Corporate America. Even Now And Then, Standing Up To The Media. And That Means Having A Candidate Who Can Excite Working Families, Excite Young People, Bring Them Into The Political Process, Create A Large Voter Turnout.

I Call Upon Donald Trump To Rescind The Appointment That He Made Of Stephen Bannon. A President Of The United States Should Not Have A Racist At His Side, Unacceptable.

You Cannot Be A Party Which Takes Money From Wall Street, Which Is Not Strong On The Pharmaceutical Industry, Which Is Ripping Us Off Every Day, Which Is Not Strong On Health Care In Taking On The Insurance Companies, Which Has Not Shown A Desire To Stand Up And Fight The Economic Establishment, And Then Tell Working Families That You Are On Their Side. People See Through That.

All Of You Are Aware Of The Tragic History Of Racism In America, But For A Very Long Time, African-americans And Their White Allies Came Together And They Struggled And They Stood Up For Justice And They Stood Up To Lynching And They Stood Up To Segregation And The Stood Up To A Nation Where African-americans Couldn't Even Vote In America.

I Fear Very Much For Our Kids, For Low Income People And For Seniors.

Please Don't Suggest That I Think We Normalize Relations With Tehran Tomorrow. We Don't. But I Would Like To See Us Move Forward, And Hopefully Some Day That Will Happen.

I Worry Very, Very Much About An Isolated Country. That's What Makes Me Nervous. Russia Lives In The World. China Lives In The World. North Korea Is A Very, Very Strange Country Because It Is So Isolated, And I Do Feel That A Nation With Nuclear Weapons, They Have Got To Be Dealt With. Dealt With Effectively.

There Are Many Major Crises Facing Our Country. At The Top Of The List Is The Need To Overturn Citizens United. If Billionaires Are Able To Buy Elections And Elect Right-wing Candidates, There Is No Way We Will Ever Address Climate Change, College Education, Affordability, Job Creation, Raising The Minimum Wage And Taking On Wall Street.

Debating, Doubting, Or Rejecting The Basic Scientific Facts About Climate Change In The Face Of The Overwhelming Evidence And Overwhelming Scientific Opinion Will Not Change Those Facts.

I Happen To Believe That One Of The Great Crises Facing The Planet Is Climate Change. Donald Trump Happens Not To Think That Climate Change Is Real. Hillary Clinton Takes It Seriously.

What The Supreme Court Did In Citizens United Is To Say To These Same Billionaires And The Corporations They Control: 'you Own And Control The Economy, You Own Wall Street, You Own The Coal Companies, You Own The Oil Companies. Now, For A Very Small Percentage Of Your Wealth, We're Going To Give You The Opportunity To Own The United States Government.' This Is The Essence Of What Citizens United Is All About - And That's Why It Must Be Overturned.

I Was Elected By The Democrats To Be Chair Of The Veterans Committee, Which I'm Very Proud Of. And Now Am The Rankings Member On The Budget Committee, Leader Of The Democrats In Opposition To The Majority Republicans.

The Reality Is We That Have A Corrupt Campaign Finance System Which Separates The American People's Needs And Desires From What Congress Is Doing. So To My Mind, What We Have Got To Do Is Wage A Political Revolution Where Millions Of People Have Given Up On The Political Process, Stand Up And Fight Back, Demand The Government That Represents Us And Not Just A Handful Of Campaign Contribution - Contributors.

When The Media Worries About What Hillary’s Hair Looks Like Or What My Hair Looks Like, That’s A Real Problem. We Have Millions Of People Who Are Struggling To Keep Their Heads Above Water, Who Want To Know What Candidates Can Do To Improve Their Lives, And The Media Will Very Often Spend More Time Worrying About Hair Than The Fact That We’re The Only Major Country On Earth That Doesn’t Guarantee Health Care To All People.

I Believe The Democratic Party Has Got To Be Firmly On The Side Of Working Families, Taking On The Big Money Interests, Who Today, To A Very Significant Degree, Control Our Economic And Political Life.

I Am Running For President As A Democrat. And If Elected, Not Only Do I Hope To Bring Forth A Major Change In National Priorities, But Let Me Be Frank, I Do Want To See Major Changes In The Democratic Party.

This Is What Oligarchy Looks Like: Today, The Top One-tenth Of 1 Percent Owns Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent. The Top One-hundredth Of 1 Percent Makes More Than 40 Percent Of All Campaign Contributions. The Billionaire Class Owns The Political System And Reaps The Benefits From It.

I Did Work With John Mccain. I Did Work With Jeff Miller Over In The House. And We Put Together Not The Bill That I Wanted, But Probably The Most Comprehensive V.a. Health Care Bill In The Modern History Of This Country.

Wall Street Is Perhaps The Most Powerful Economic And Political Force In This Country. You Have Companies Like Goldman Sachs, Who Just Recently Paid A Settlement Fine With The Federal Government For $5 Billion For Defrauding Investors.

Rich Get Richer. Everyone Else Gets Poorer. And All These Guys Can Talk About Is War And Defunding Planned Parenthood.

If The Goal Of Health-care Reform Is To Provide Comprehensive, Universal Health Care In A Cost-effective Way, The Only Honest Approach Is A Single-payer Approach.

I Think It Is Now Widely Understood That The So-called "war On Drugs" Has Largely Been A Failure. Too Many People Have Developed Criminal Records For Smoking Marijuana. Too Many People Have Gone To Jail For Nonviolent Crimes. So I Think It's Important For Us To Rethink The War On Drugs.

We Have To Say To The Billionaire Class, Enough Is Enough. You Cannot Have It All. You Are Going To Pay More In Taxes.

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